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For more information, please contact [email protected]. dailygamecock.com UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA TUESDAY, JANUARY 15, 2013 VOL. 111, NO. 02 ● SINCE 1908 Elkins chosen for Palmetto College New chancellor to receive $185k Amiridis . also works as the Board of Regents . as head of online program Elkins rose to the top of the pool of dean of the college The hire represents a big step applicants because of her experience at of interdisciplinary in the development of the program’s Thad Moore Tennessee Tech, Amiridis said, where studies . administration, which will continue to [email protected] she’s worked for more than 20 years . Elkins will be paid fi ll in this spring. She’ll start at USC on Feb. 18 . a total of $185,000 at Elkins will have a hand in picking USC’s board of trustees named Susan Since Tennessee Tech started its USC , less than the candidates for open dean positions at Elkins, a vice president at Tennessee Web degree programs about a decade university’s three three of the Palmetto College’s four Tech nolog ica l Un iversit y , the first ago , Elkins has been heading them up, other chancellors, two-year campuses, in Lancaster, Sumter chancellor of the fledgling Palmetto and the program, which fuses physical ELKINS who receive total and Union . Those search committees College program Monday . campuses with online coursework, compensation between will begin culling their lists of prospects The university received about 40 enrolls students in about a third of the $194,000 and $205,000 , according to over the next two weeks, Amiridis said. applications for the new position, which state, Elkins said. Chris Byrd, the vice president for human Elkins has experience with such young will oversee a new online college and She was named the school’s vice resources . At Tennessee Tech, Elkins programs and decided to take the helm of the USC system’s four existing regional president of extended programs and earned $131,500, said Monica Greppin- campuses , according to Provost Michael regional development in 2006 and Watts, a spokeswoman for the Tennessee ELKINS ● 4 Students serve LGBT community in Washington Alternative Winter Break focuses on advocacy Sarah Ellis [email protected] While thousands of Gamecock fans traveled to Tampa, Fla., over break to attend the Outback Bowl, a smaller contingent of USC students traveled to the nation’s capital for a week of advocacy learning and volunteer service. Community Service Programs hosted an Alternative Winter Break trip for Reaching new heights Page 11 the first time, as eight students and an adviser met with national lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender advocacy organizations in Washington, D.C., to bring back insight and ideas for awareness and action at USC. Community service intern Noël Marsh, a third-year religious studies and psychology student, was responsible for organizing the trip. She said she was not aware of the plight of the LGBT community until she began researching and planning. “I had gay friends, and I was sort of passively an ally, but I really didn’t understand how big the problems were socially. It really opened my eyes ... I would call this the civil rights cause of our generation,” Marsh said. “For me it was sort of a wake-up call that this is important.” The trip included meetings with and presentations from Amnesty International, the Human Rights Campaign, Victory Fund, and Parents, Family and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG). Marsh said the goal was Photos by Brian Almond / THE DAILY GAMECOCK to get a sense for what the group could bring back to USC for LGBT advocacy. “(It’s about) making it pertinent in rm er her es your community,” Marsh said. “South Wa wint weat welcom all Carolina obviously has some diffi culty with its LGBT friendliness.” Unseasonably warm temperatures drew students out outside of Rutledge College. Forth-year music student Ari of their rooms and onto the Horseshoe during the fi rst “The fi rst day of classes felt like the last day of classes,” Lindenbaum said he went on the trip day of classes. Causey said. because he was interested in seeing With the high matching a record 80 degrees for the This week’s unusual weather is a stark contrast to the different people’s approaches to LGBT date and temperatures remaining in the 70s well into fi rst week of spring classes just two years ago, when snow advocacy. The real issue for advocates, the evening, students laid out on blankets, hung their prompted the university to cancel several days of classes he said, is fi nding “what’s behind people hammocks and passed Frisbees — activities rarely to start the semester. not accepting other people, and why [it enjoyed in the middle of January, when temperatures Temperatures are expected to remain warm before isn’t] equal already.” average in the mid-50s. cooling off to a high of 59 degrees on Thursday. “The groups that we talked to were Third-year sport and entertainment student Jake Causey strummed his banjo while relaxing in a hammock — Compiled by Sarah Ellis, Assistant News Editor SERVICE ● 4 Award-winning poet to teach at USC in fall Amanda Coyne “From my intimate vantage point, being a for her collection of poetry “Head Off and Split.” [email protected] daughter of South Carolina, the fl agship university She has published three other poetry collections named after the state seems to be charging and one collection of short stories. She also edited National Book Award winner Nikky Finney forward into the bright lights of the future, a poetry anthology. will serve as the John H. Bennett Jr. Chair of positioning an impressive array of administrators She has also won the Benjamin Franklin Award Southern Literature and Creative Writing this and hiring amazing faculty and staff,” Finney said for Poetry and the PEN America Open Book fall. The chair is a joint appointment in the in a release. Award, both for her poetry collections. Department of English and the African American Finney has a special perspective on African- During her 22 years at Kentucky, Finney also Studies Program. American studies; her father Ernest Finney is a served as a visiting professor at Smith College for While Finney has taught at the University of civil rights attorney and a retired South Carolina two years and Berea College for one year. Kentucky since 1991, she is a Columbia native, chief justice. giving her a unique perspective for her new Finney won the National Book Award in 2011 position at USC. DG Tuesday SC concerts An avoidable suicide Men’s basketball 77° 58° Award-winning artists Columnist Max Sto- Over the winter break, like Grace Potter and larczyk highlights how the Gamecocks got off the Nocturals are an unfair judicial sys- to a disappointing 0-2 bringing their music Wednesday to cities across the tem cost one extraor- start to conference play, state this year. dinary man his life. suffering close losses in 76° 52° both games. See page 7 See page 6 See page 12 2 Tuesday, January 15, 2013 In Brief. Former governor likely Tweeting could be new Teacher facing termination to run for Senate seat key to weight loss after stomping on US fl ag Former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford Looking for ways to fi nally achieve those elusive A Chapin High School English teacher may is “on the proverbial 1-yard line” of running for New Year’s fitness goals? Twitter might be one lose his job after stomping on an American fl ag Sen. Tim Scott’s recently vacated congressional solution, according to a new study. in his class last week , WIS TV reported . seat, Free Times reported. Researchers from the USC Arnold School of Public Scott Compton was placed on administrative His ex-wife and former South Carolina first Health found that weight loss study participants who leave last week after the incident , during which lady Jenny Sanford shut down speculations that used Twitter to frequently communicate with other he said the flag “doesn’t mean anything.” she would run for the seat. If she had run for the participants lost more weight than those who were Lexington-Richland School District Five seat, previously held by her ex-husband, it may less active on the popular social media site, The State Superintendent Stephen Hafter, who served in have been a Sanford vs. Sanford race. reported. the military, will recommend that the school Jenny Sanford said being a mother was more USC researcher Brie Turner-McGrievy said the board terminate Compton. No action was taken important to her than running for the seat. findings reflected the effectiveness of large-scale against the teacher at last Monday’s board At a tea party convention in Myrtle Beach, S.C., social support. meeting, however. Saturday, former Gov. Sanford said the issues “Traditional behavioral weight loss interventions Compton’s class was told a permanent facing Congress now are the same ones he faced generally provide social support through weekly, replacement would be found for him .